Corset



M. E. FIELD (ModeL) CORSET Patented Jan. 31,1882.

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MARY E. FIELD, OF NEW HAVEN, (JONNEG'IIGUT.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent -N0. 252,935, dated January 31, 1882.

Application filed September 3, 1881.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, M. EMMA FIELD, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Im 'n'ovementsin Corsets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertaius to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved corset. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a detail view of one of the bosom-pieces.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like letters of reference.

This invention relates to corsets or underwaists for ladies and misses; and it consists in certain improvements in the construction of the same, which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the waist and back pieces of my improved corset, which said pieces are denoted respectively by the letters A and B, no'novelty is The former are provided with thin flexible steels or stays having hooks and eyes of any well-known construction, while the latter are connected in the usual mann'r by lacin The parts A and B are connected to the lower edge of a yoke, O, the shoulder-straps D of which are severed at E and connected by lacing F, which permit the garment to be adjusted to the figure and size of the wearer, so that the strain upon the shoulders may be borne without inconvenience. The lacing F is near the front of the shoulder-straps, so that it may Model.)

be convenientlyadjusted after the garment has been put on.-

' The bosom-pieces Gr are inserted in the front of the yoke, above the iron t pieces, A, as shown. Said bosom-pieces are each constructed of two pieces of thin, porous, and flexible, but. dura- The waist part,- of my improved cor-et is to be corded or stifi'ened in any suitable wellknown manner.

I am aware ofthe patent to Frostaml Phelps, No. 169,899, November 16, 1875. and I claim nothing therein shown; nor do I claim separately the laced shoulder-straps; but,

Having thus described myinventiou, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- In a corset, the combination of thebody A B, the yoke U, of the form shown, haviuglaced shoulder-straps, and the bosom-pieces Gr, each consisting of ,two pieces of thin porous material united by a central vertical seam gathered at the sides and evenly secured at the top and bottom, all constructed and arranged substantially. as herein described, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I olaim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

MARY EMMA FIELD.

Witnesses:

- E. P. ARVINE,

CHAS. W. FOSTER. 

